Description:

Life Span: Perennial

Season: Deciduous

Douglas rabbitbrush is an erect shrub, branching from near the base, with a rounded crown, growing 1 to 3 ½ feet tall. It flowers July to September and reproduces from seed and vegetatively by vigorous sprouting.

Flowers/Inflorescence: Inflorescences are in flat-top or round clusters with many branches. The flowers are small and yellow.

 

Fruits/Seeds: Fruit is a wedge-shaped achene that is flattened, light brown, with 5 ribs. It is pubescent and slightly barbed, and produces an abundance of small, viable, plumed seeds that are easily dispersed by wind.

 

Leaves: Alternate, green, and usually twisted.

 

Stems: Twigs are mostly erect, stiff, brittle, striate, greenish or white glabrous, and semi-glossy.

 

The trunk bark is light brown and shreddy.